Battlefield: bad company 2: Crashing computer randomly

[Magmacow358]

Hey, ive been having some problems with BFBC2. It seems that the game crashes at random parts of the gome. especially when theres a crapton of explosions or, in the most recent case, during the cutscene after you secure the satelite. its really annoying and i dont want to have to restart my computer every 15 minutes.

specs:

MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-
AMD Phenom II X4 945
4.0GB Single-Channel DDR2 @ 401MHz
ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
AMD High Definition Audio Device

thanks.

[Clipper]

Maybe you should end some unnecessary processes in Task Manager Processes tab(Ctrl+Alt+Delete). They mostly increase CPU usage which leads to such events like crashing, freezing.

[Magmacow358]

Nope. still crashes.

I swear i heard some game sounds after the crash tho, it might have something to do with my video card. my monitor says "no input" when the crash happens.

It doesn't make sense tho, my video card is more than capable of running the game, and heat might be an issue as i have a small case but i have the side of and a high power fan right next to the damned thing.

Help?

[Clipper]

Check the temperature if you think the heat is an issue. Does the problems occur only in Bad Company 2?

[Magmacow358]

Pretty much. they might occur in garry's mod if i spawn to much shit or create more than 5 nukes, but thats normal.

I'll check the temp and report back.

btw, thank you for helping me

[editline]27th March 2011[/editline]

Okay, i did some temp checks using speccy, and this is what i got.

cpu normal: 26 degrees
cpu in game: 36 degrees

motherboard normal: 33 degrees
motherboard ingame: 40 degrees

graphics card normal: 40 and 37 (it says i have 2 graphics cards lol, i guess it has 2 gpu's or something)
Graphics card ingame: 50 and 40

I dont think its a heat problem. and thats without the fan on.

[editline]27th March 2011[/editline]

Okay, i tried updating my drivers, installed/ran gamebooster, ran as admin for game, disabling bloom in documents/bfbc2/settings.txt, set dx mode to 10, turned my fan to max power and...

IT WORKED! YAY!

Not sure what did it, but i got past the cut scene and have a feeling the end of the crashing is here.

[Shadaez]

It's most likely GPU overheating and causing a driver crash, dust that thing out, it's a 4870 TIMES TWO so you know it's blistering hot.